The book has a raw, unfinished feel about it, yet that somehow adds to the experience of reading it. The end of the book is dramatic, but too sudden. Her narrative is deeply engaging and yet a bit unbelievable. However, her long sentences and total lack of punctuation for dialogue can be exhausting. Her descriptions are wonderful, as is her ability to portray the emotions of her characters. But after England is effectively taken hostage by an unnamed country, her. The YA book drops prickly, steel-spined American teen Daisy among cousins she’s never met in the English countryside, including Edmond, with whom she falls in love. Rosoff's writing style is both brilliant and frustrating. Today the film adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s crazy-good debut novel, How I Live Now, hits theaters.

Their experiences of occupation are never kind and Daisy's pain, living without Edmond, is tangible. Daisy and Edmond are separated when soldiers take over their home, and Daisy and Piper, her younger cousin, must travel to another place to work. Daisy's cousins seem to have an almost telepathic bond, and Daisy is mesmerized by Edmond and soon falls in love with him.īut their world changes forever when an unnamed aggressor invades England and begins a years-long occupation. They spend some idyllic weeks together-often alone with Aunt Penn away travelling in Norway. Daisy stays at her Aunt Penn's country farmhouse for the summer with Edmond and her other cousins. How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff. She's picked up at the airport by Edmond, her English cousin, a boy in whose life she is destined to become intricately entwined. Rosoff's story begins in modern day London, slightly in the future, and as its heroine has a 15-year-old Manhattanite called Daisy. Heralded by some as the next best adult crossover novel since Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, who himself has given the book a thunderously good quote, this author's debut is undoubtedly stylish, readable and fascinating. Possibly one of the most talked about books of the year, Meg Rosoff's novel for young adults is the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004. How I Live Now is a dystopian YA novel by American author Meg Rosoff, published in 2004.

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